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Hypnotic stuttering

It may help to know just what experience, or set of conditions, started a stutterer in his speech defect. Then the force of this cause in the subconscious can be broken and the treatment strengthened. But the first thing is to cure the stuttering, and this can be done, even where no definite cause can be located. The same is true of the treatment of phobias, etc. Remove the phobia. Assure the patient he will no longer fear the dark, high places, closed places, or whatever his trouble may be. This is simple, direct and effective hypnotic treatment—regardless of causes. The chain of negative association which comprises the cause can be utterly broken up, through positive suggestion, during hypnosis.

If, under hypnosis, the patient proves unable to reveal any clue as to the cause of his defect, do not delay but proceed at once with the treatment. Never press your efforts to locate a cause to the point where you may develop unconscious resistance. Stop your inquiries and proceed with positive suggestion.

Place the patient under hypnosis as described in Chapter Five. When tests reveal he is in a hypnotic state, ask him at what age he started to stutter. Then ask him what happened that might have caused him to stutter. You may ask, "Did you receive punishment for something you did? Did anything happen at school? Did other children make fun of you? Did you do something about which you felt a sense of guilt?" Tell him to think hard and try to recall any experience which might have had a restrictive influence upon him just before he started to stutter.

If he is unable to recall anything which might have been a factor in the cause, immediately proceed to the suggestive treatment. You may say, "Sleep deeply— very deeply—you will be conscious of nothing but my voice—you will speak freely and easily—the tendency to stutter is gone—speak without hesitancy." Then ask him simple questions which he can answer without effort: such as, "What is your name? What is your father's name? Your mother's? How many brothers and sisters? Name them. Where do you live? Where did you attend school? Do you work? What do you do? Tell me about it—just what are your duties—do you like this work—what would you rather do, if anything, etc." The purpose of these questions is to get him talking with least possible resistance.

The moment he starts to stutter, if he does, stop and repeat the suggestion that he does not need to stutter— that he will answer you easily and freely; and say, in a sharp, commanding voice, "Now repeat that without stuttering." When he does so, say, "That's fine—see— you have proved to yourself that you can talk without stuttering." Be sure, before awakening him, to give strong post-hypnotic suggestions that his stuttering will be com¬pletely eliminated, he will speak without embarrassment and with complete self-confidence. Do not expect miracles. Few will be cured in a single 5 treatment. But they can and will be cured if the treatments are persisted in. Improvement may at first be gradual, and will become more marked as the patient becomes more deeply hypnotised in successive treatments.

Hypnotic stuttering

Hypnotic, this modern world

IT is a strange world we live in. To me nothing is stranger than the immense part played in our everyday lives by the power of suggestion. The very highly organized industries of advertising and salesmanship are typical instances of this. For example, two large rival chemical combines are selling rival brands of aspirin. Their products are almost identical—they have to conform to the minimum chemical standards prescribed by law. Yet all day long we see advertised all round us "Buy XYZ Aspirin—there is no better", and next time we buy aspirin, chances are we insist on XYZ brand, because it is easy to ask for, and we cannot remember any other brand at the moment.

Given this power of suggestion on the human mind at all hours of the waking day, it is horrifying to me how seldom the power is consciously used for good, and how our newspaper editors, film makers and others catering for public entertainment seem almost to rejoice in spotlighting the uglier aspects of lifPublish Poste. "I have supped full with horrors", says Hamlet, and the modern man would merely have to alter this to "I have breakfasted full with horrors", after reading his daily morning newspaper. Floods, earthquakes, air crashes, murders, divorces and suicides are certain of their place in the headlines; while a new advance in public health, or the opening of a new playing-field which will give pleasure to thousands is lucky if it qualifies for two inches at the bottom of the page. How often we are shown the photo of a man who has recently fallen dead in the street from heart attack; how seldom the photo of a man who got over a heart attack ten years ago, and now enjoys his Saturday game of golf like anyone else! I have long maintained, in public and in private, that particularly in the health sphere—a subject in which most people are personally interested—this concentration on disaster does an untold amount of unseen harm. I regard heart disease, cancer, and fear of insanity as the three great killers of the world to-day. All three are complaints the mere whisper of which may make a man die mentally twenty-five years before he dies physically. No other complaints induce that paralyzing fear of the future which, as every doctor knows, is itself enough to prevent any cure or possibility of arresting the disease if it in fact has got a hold on a patient. Even in tuberculosis it can be clearly demonstrated to the patient whether or not he has the disease; and even cripples, and the blind or deaf learn to adjust themselves to their disabilities, for they know they are going to live.

Do you remember that old story of the Traveller and the Plague? On his way one day the Traveller met a mysterious, cloaked figure hurrying along in the opposite direction, and stopped to ask him who he was. "I am the Plague," came the reply, "going along to the town you've just passed to kill 100,000 people there. At least I myself shall only kill 200. Fear will do the rest for me. Good morning." So when the ordinary man reads about death, disease, and disasters day after day in his newspapers; when his local cinema runs film after film about life in a lunatic asylum or the activities of paranoiac gunmen; when, as recently in the U.S.A., he couldn't drive his car to the next town without seeing huge hoardings along the roads shouting at him to beware of cancer (which he would never otherwise have given a thought to)—how can we doubt that a vast amount of unnecessary and easily preventable sickness is caused by the power of a wrong idea to establish itself inside the human mind? And how can we doubt the desperate need in this modern world for a technique which can help to expel such ideas once they become established? Hypnotism is such a technique.

Hypnotic, this modern world